Consequentialism: New Directions, New Problems 1st Edition Christian Seidel

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019027011X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190270117
• Author(s): Christian Seidel

Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind important developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style. By seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories, in particular those with agent-relative characteristics, and by framing accounts in terms of reasons rather than in terms of value, an emerging new wave consequentialism has presented – at much higher levels of abstraction – theories which proved extremely flexible and powerful in meeting long-standing and influential objections. This volume of new essays on new wave consequentialism initiates and stimulates novel lines of discussions among proponents and their critics. The contributions explore new directions in new wave consequentialism and present refined conceptual frameworks (in Part I), raise challenging fundamental problems for these frameworks and the new wave’s theoretical basis (in Part II), and give a balanced assessment of the new wave’s limits and achievements in specific contexts of commonsense moral practice (in Part III). The volume will be of interest to all readers in ethical and moral theory.

Table contents:

1. New Wave Consequentialism: An Introduction
Part I Directions: Exploring New Wave Consequentialism
2. World-Centered Value
3. Multidimensional Consequentialism and Population Ethics
4. Consequentialism and Coordination: How Traditional Consequentialism Has an Attitude Problem
5. Fittingness Objections to Consequentialism
Part II Problems: Scrutinizing the New Wave’s Theoretical Basis
6. The Good of Consequentialized Deontology
7. The Restrictions of Consequentialism
8. Commonsense Consequentialism, Moral Rationalism, and Options
9. New Consequentialism and the New Doing-Allowing Distinction
10. Consequentialism, Rationality, and Kantian Respect
Part III Scope: Assessing New Wave Consequentialism in Context
11. Consequentialism and Moral Responsibility
12. Kantianism, Consequentialism, and Deterrence
Index

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